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Jai Maa and Jai Guru Deva,

Acharya Shunya's newest episode of the Whispers From the Eternal podcast is now uploaded! Today's episode is entitled "A Morning Prayer of Karma and Love". Acharya ji reflects on a daily mantra that begins her personal morning practice. The Narayana mantra she shares here will be familiar to many of us:

kāyena vācā manaseṃdriyairvā

budhyātmanā vā prakṛteḥ svabhāvāt .

karomi yadyat sakalaṃ parasmai

nārāyaṇāyeti samarpayāmi

This mantra, in which one offers all of their actions, speech, mind, senses, and Self back to Narayana, the Great Omniscient Dimension (G.O.D.), is offered first as a prayer. It truly becomes the source of our ego transformation when we make it a sankalpa, or a soul decision - to mean it, truly.

I found this phrase from today's podcast continues to resonate in my heart "This life is not mine to perform, it is mine to offer." Are there areas in your life that you are performing (albeit with good intentions) instead of offering? Let these words be an awakening.

In Sacred Service (to That),

Sadhvi Aparna